Catalogue description Great Western Railway Company; Severn Tunnel Railway

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Details of RAIL 775
Reference: RAIL 775
Title: Great Western Railway Company; Severn Tunnel Railway
Description:

The records in this series relate in the main to pumping and ventilation, although there are some few plans and sections &c. Although apparently complementary, some distinction exists in so far as the records in RAIL 775 (which were discovered in 1974 in GWR unclassified miscellanea) relate specifically to the Severn Tunnel Railway and the building of the tunnel, whereas those in RAIL 265 are more concerned with the maintenance of the tunnel itself.
Date: 1852-1941
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: SEVT
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Great Western Railway Company, 1835-1947
Physical description: 27 files and rolls
Administrative / biographical background:

Incorporated by act of 27th June 1872 to construct a tunnel under the Severn from the Bristol and South Wales Union to the South Wales. The powers conferred by this Act were exercised by the Great Western Railway, in their own name, under the provisions of the Act.

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